Different Together, the newest PTO Committee, is a social group offering community and support for LGBT Irving families, families with gender-diverse children, and friends.

Please join us for our first event:

A Potluck Dinner

Friday, May 11th, 2012

6:30 until 8:00 p.m.

in the Irving Cafeteria

Guests are asked to bring a dish to share (with serving utensils), and/or disposable/compostable plates, napkins, silverware, or cups.

Please RSVP by May 9th to Anne Jordan-Baker, by phone at 708.451.0150, or by email at annecjb@gmail.com.

Washington Irving

Elementary School

SPRING PICTURE DAY WILL BE:

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This year our school is sponsoring a spring picture program with Inter-State Studio Photographers; everyone’s photograph will be taken. A proof will be sent home with an order form, so you can preview the pose(s) before you purchase.

What to Wear?

We suggest bright and cheerful colored clothing.

WE WILL BE OFFERING SIBLING PICTURES

Siblings currently enrolled may be photographed together.

If you would like your children photographed together, please fill out the form and return to the oldest child’s teacher.

Hey Irving Eagles! Wednesday, March 21st, 11am–8:30pm is our day!

1) Come out on our day! Tasty Dog donates 15% of every order to our school. Just say you’re with our school when you order. Plus, the school that raises the most money also gets an additional $400 – from our cash prize sponsors Gloor Realty OPRF Community Bank, Elevations, Sunstar Dental, Austin Music Center! Free coupons from Magic Tree Bookstore will also be handed out on our challenge day.

2) Buy raffle tickets! They’re just $1 each. You can win any number of amazing prizes, and 100% of our tickets sale proceeds goes directly to our school. The raffle drawing will be held on Friday, April 20th, 10am at Tasty Dog. You don’t need to be present to win.

For tickets: Contact our PTO rep Jen Andersson at jlandersson@att.net, and Dawn Drumm at dawndrumm@comcast.net, or through Irving Parent’s Facebook Page –or– buy them at our day!

FLYER

The Oak Park Education Foundation’s exciting roster of summer B.A.S.E. Camp classes for students entering grades 1-9 is now available for registration atwww.opef.org/basecamp/register/.  Our camps filled up fast last summer, so register soon!

This summer’s program includes Geared Up (engineering with LEGOs), LEGO Landmarks, Architecture Adventure, Vex Robotics, Genetics Mural, Dissection, Medical Illustration & Dissection, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), Digital Photography, and Summer in Song (songwriting and chorus).  These will be great fun, and educational, too!

Pack Assorted Colors for Kids.

To celebrate PACK week, the hot lunch will provide a fruit or vegetable that is the “color of the day” during the week. We also encourage students, who bring a cold lunch, to also pack a fruit or vegetable that color, on that day.

Even if you cant bring that color fruit or vegetable you can still help to promote this by wearing the color of the day.

Monday – Pack and wear Purple
Tuesday – Pack and wear White
Wednesday – Pack and wear Red
Thursday – Pack and wear Yellow/Orange
Friday – Pack and wear Green

Click here for a flyer with PACK Week Tips.